Forbes – Jon Hartley
“The late University of Chicago economist Milton Friedman famously observed that the United States ranks first in higher education across the globe while in terms of elementary and secondary education, however, the U.S. ranks near the bottom. The disparity stems mostly from choice. In higher education, Milton Friedman argued that the student chooses the school. The elementary and secondary school system is grounded on the school picking its students. Embodied in the continued work of the Friedman Foundation For Educational Choice, Professor Friedman’s support for school voucher programs was taken one step further as Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval made history earlier this month by establishing the first universal education savings accounts. The mechanism allows Nevada students that have been enrolled in public school for at least 100 days, meeting this eligibility requirement will allow parents that remove their children from an assigned district to use the educational savings fund dollars for their desired educational purposes.”(more)